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With less than two weeks to go before Election Day, it?s beginning to look a lot like 2000. Democrats are already accusing Republicans of intimidating voters in an attempt to steal the presidential election; Republicans are already accusing Democrats of committing voter fraud in an attempt to steal the Presidential election. It?s nice to know that no matter which party loses this election, it will already have an explanation why. Both sides are yelling, ?Remember Florida...
...truth is our elections have always been a flawed process. Allegations and instances of voter fraud and voter intimidation are as old as the Constitution. Modern election day is a logistical nightmare involving more than 100 million voters. Because we have a federal system, states and most counties each have their own set of election laws and procedures. Most of us would like to believe that every vote is equal, but the system is very vulnerable to mistakes and abuse. For many years, no one noticed, but then again, most times the candidates in a presidential race were separated...
...Democrats and Republicans look at voting rights issues from different perspectives. To most Republicans, the problem is vote integrity - preventing voter fraud from stealing elections. Republicans point to a long history of Democratic political machines in big cities using fake voter registrations and other deceptions. Favorite examples are dead people and springer spaniels finding their way onto voter registration sheets. Some of the allegations, though not all of them, are true. And since the Democrats have been conducting huge voter registration drives this year, the G.O.P. is suspicious...
America Coming Together (ACT), a nonprofit that helps Democratic candidates, plans to drag voters to the polls for an entire month. Ruben Marinelarena, an ACT organizer who graduated from Harvard last year, is responsible for ensuring that 6,000 Democrats who don’t always vote on election day get their vote counted before November 2. In a state where 366 votes decided the last election, Ruben’s job is no joke. Democrats have every reason to believe that if Ruben succeeds, John Kerry will win New Mexico. Democrats enjoy a 5 to 3 advantage among registered...
...importance of voter turnout is good news for young Democrats. We are the ground troops that enable candidates to reach voters where they live. Every employee of the ACT office where Marinelarena works is under 25. Morgan Simon, who is in charge of one-third of Moving America Forward’s ambitious New Mexico voter registration goal, is 21 years old. In every part of the country, young people are the driving force behind massive voter turnout operations...